Docker-desktop-data keeps disapearing

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I’m running docker on windows 11 ARM. I’m using docker desktop for ARM

The install is no issue; I can spin up containers. But when I reboot and try to start docker desktop during the startup process the docker-desktop-data disk keeps being removed/deleted. it’s gone from wsl --list

it’s there after the reboot, it disappears/deletes when docker is starting up.

Anyone else having this issue?

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wsl --list doesn’t show disks, only WSL distributions and the “docker-desktop-data” distribution is not part of Docker Desktop for a long time. Current versions mount a disk into the single WSL distribution called “docker-desktop”.

Did you update Docker Desktop from an older version, or did you install the latest version without a previous one?

What is your current current Docker Desktop version and if you updated from another one, what was that version?

I don’t have that data distribution, and I don’t remember how it was removed. I think it was kept for a while and only newly installed Docker Desktops stopped using it. I’m not sure if any version directly removed it since than, but even in that case, I don’t know why a WSL distribution disappears after reboot and not right after reinstalling Docker Desktop. MAybe we will know more if you share the version info.

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Because this has happened multiple times, I’ve unregistered docker desktop, uninstalled docker desktop, removed all the folders that reference docker desktop I could find. Download the latest version and installed fresh. Every time I’ve done that docker-desktop-data shows up in wsl --list and works until I reboot.

Version 4.58.0

Jason

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That is a very strange issue. Something must have remained on your machine that “confuses” Docker Desktop.

Just to double check it, do you find any folders in the linked documentation that you didn’t remove or any command you didn’t run?

Since the data distribution was indeed removed long time ago, if it keeps coming back, I really don’t have better ideas than something still remaining from previous installations. I admit that it is still strange how a newly installed Docker Desktop could could start a WSL distribution and then remove it after reboot.